• Queer Performance and Politics
• Performing Sexualities and Sexual Subcultures
• The Politics of Shame and Failure
• Performance Presence, Spectacle and Virtuosity
• Autobiographical Performance and Performing Subjectivities
• Movement and Physical Practices, including Mixed Martial Arts, Pro-wrestling, Fitness and Acrobatics
• Critiquing Ballet Cultures
• Dramaturgies
Forthcoming: 'Pink Feathers: The Ballet Closet and Three Gay remakes of Swan Lake (1995-2005)' in Risner, D. and Watson, B. (eds). Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don't) Dance. Palgrave McMilllan: London.
With Penny Arcade: "Fag, Hag, Drag: Penny Arcade's Archive of Otherness' in Farrier, S. and Edwards, M. (eds) (2021) Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories: Drag in a changing Scene. Bloomsbury: London
With Martin O'Brien and Gillie Kleiman, 'Threesome', in Dance Theatre Journal, 24, 4 (2011)
I have also worked as a journalist and have interviewed artists such as Genesis P'orrdige (Throbbing Gristle an Pyschic Tv), Anhoni (Anthony and the Johnsons), Jay Brennan, Jonathan Saunders, Gang Gang Dance, Fan Death and Animal from the Muppets!
I have written for Pop Magazine, Love Magazine, Gay Times, The Guardian and QX Magazine.
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